Landsberg Law Office

The Landsberg Law Office specializes in trial work of all types. A lot of attorneys have no trial experience. We smile at them and cannot wait to see them in court.

1. A few years ago a man came to me whose wife lost her arm in a car wreck. The government said he was responsible. He confessed three times, twice recorded and once to a Federal probation officer. The Detective produced a tape that he claimed said the wife accused the husband. The paramedic said the wife blamed the husband explicitly. The story was on the news everyday. The Advertiser used it as an example of people so obviously guilty of Domestic Violence. Since he was acquitted after a full jury trial they've since reaffirmed their love, and gone on to have their fifth baby.

2. About a year after that case, another man came to me being accused of touching a very young girl in a very bad place. He had no alibi. Although he was warned not to return to that girl's house, he went back there again. Besides the girl, at least two eyewitnesses came to testify. The prosecutor called a therapist to testify that he all but admitted to her in a therapy session. But he wasn't guilty, and after carefully constructed cross examination the jury realized that the family had made up their story to protect one of the little girl's male family members.

3. Attorneys joke about the Defense "Not My Pants". As a defense attorney we have to show that you had no idea that this large, bulging pipe and drugs were in your pants, but you didn't know it. Never mind that no juror has ever looked inside his own pants and said "Hey, who put these drugs in here". It's a hard defense to sell, one of the hardest. So when the judge looked me in the eye and said, based on my client's record, my client was getting the maximum sentence. We had no option except to have a full jury trial based on the defense "Not my pants". And oh yeah, he had drug paraphernalia in his hand as well. HIS HAND. Not my pants, not my hand. And despite three police officers saying the drug, the pipe, and the scale were in his pants and HAND, the jury didn't believe them. They instead believed that a Drag Queen named "Bermudez" ordered him to wear a certain pair of shorts in order to set him up with the police, so that Bermudez could sleep with the Defendant's 20 year old Eskimo boyfriend. That's how they knew it was true, it was too peculiar to be made up.